The Voice (Italian: La Voce) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by David Uloth and released in 2015.[1] Inspired by the opera Lucia di Lammermoor and conceived as a film whose story would be carried by sound design rather than dialogue, the film stars Miro Lacasse as Edgar, an opera-loving employee at a pig slaughterhouse; one day, his plan to ask his girlfriend to marry him is derailed by the discovery that she is having an affair with his boss, leaving him in such a state of shock that he loses his voice and can communicate only by grunting and squealing like a pig.[1]

The Voice
ItalianLa Voce
Directed byDavid Uloth
Written byChloé Cinq-Mars
Produced byGalilé Marion-Gauvin
Dominique Noujeim
David Uloth
StarringMiro Lacasse
Catherine Ruel
Julie De Lafrenière
Harry Standjofski
Marc Labrèche
CinematographyPhilippe Roy
Edited byElisabeth Olga Tremblay
David Uloth
Music byRobert Marcel Lepage
Production
company
Sure Shot Productions
Distributed byTravelling Distribution
Release date
  • September 1, 2015 (2015-09-01) (MWFF)
Running time
17 minutes
CountryCanada

The cast also includes Catherine Ruel, Julie De Lafrenière, Harry Standjofski and Marc Labrèche.

The film won the awards for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2016 Saguenay International Short Film Festival[2] and the 2016 Quebec City Film Festival,[3] and was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Céline Roustan, "La Voce". Short of the Week, June 18, 2020.
  2. ^ François Lévesque, "Vollrath et Uloth l’emportent". Le Devoir, March 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Année record pour le Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec". Ici Radio-Canada, September 25, 2016.
  4. ^ Manon Dumais, "Dolan et Nguyen dominent la course aux prix Iris". Le Devoir, April 6, 2017.
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